Quentin Crisp Quotes

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Quentin Crisp

Profession : Writer

Birth : December 25, 1908

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

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It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

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The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

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Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

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